{"product_id":"mirrors-of-passing-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-death-materiality-and-time-9781785338946","title":"Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWithout exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. \u003cem\u003eMirrors of Passing\u003c\/em\u003e offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“In\u003c\/em\u003e Mirrors of Passing\u003cem\u003e, Seebach and Willerslev have successfully revealed novel ways of approaching death from the perspectives of time, materiality and the social role of the dead. While, as they admit, no final concluding statement about the relationships between death, materiality and time appear possible, this edited collection does not require one. The value of this text comes not from any one particular statement, but from the range of perspectives it offers and what these perspectives can themselves offer those persons wishing to understand death beyond the assumptions about it that are hidden in modern life. This volume is highly relevant for anyone interested in cultural anthropology, social anthropology, museum studies, religious studies or sociological studies of death.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• JASO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This volume is especially relevant for scholars and students concerned with the ethical role of museums as caretakers of our religious material and physical (human) remains as well as for those interested in broader questions of how death, time, and materiality impact human conceptions of spirit and place. Its value for scholars of religious studies lies in its non-Western focus, as it provides—in one volume—a significant contribution to the scholarship on death and conceptions of the afterlife from contemporary indigenous cultures around the world.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Reading Religion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Ambitious and engaging, the essays in this volume demonstrate how diverse conceptions of time, in relation to death, are present across history, geography, and media. Beginning with the first chapter’s enchanting examination of a James Joyce story, and continuing through the various ethnographies, the contributors have provided us with new ways of engaging with some familiar themes.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Barbara Graham\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath, Materiality, and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mirrors of Passing\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: DEATH'S TIME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Time of the Dead: Anthropology, Literature, and the Virtual Past\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStuart McLean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Orpheus in Love, Death, and Time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarina Prusac-Lindhagen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Death before Time: Mythical Time in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Religion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRune Nyord\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e When Bad Places Turn Worse: The Necropolitics of Death Sites in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePer Detlef Frederiksen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narratives of Ebola: Temporal and Material Changes of Social Riverscapes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTheresa Amman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: MATERIALITIES OF DEATH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Saving the Dead\": Fighting for Life in the Siberian North\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eRane Willerslev and \u003c\/em\u003eJeanette Lykkegård\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Death, Rebirth, Objects, and Time in North American Traditional Inuit Societies: an Overview\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMatthew J. Walsh and Sean O’Neill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Transforming and Creating Multiple Worlds: Strange Attractors in the Mongolian landscape\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMalthe Lehrmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dead among the Living: Materiality and Time in Rethinking Death and Otherness in Lowland South America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClarissa Martins Lima and Felipe Vander Velden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: LIFE AFTER DEATH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making Presence: Time Work and Narratives in Bereaved Parents' Online Grief Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Multiple Identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby: The Case of the Sámi Skulls\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Matland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Media, Ritual, and Immortality: The Case of a Masculine Hero\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohanna Sumiala\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Temporality and Materiality of Life and Death in a Sepik Village\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristiane Falck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: EXHIBITING DEATH, MATERIALITY, AND TIME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Wonderful Exhibition That Almost Was\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexandra Schuessler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042410430807,"sku":"9781785338946","price":43.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mirrors-of-passing-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-death-materiality-and-time-9781785338946","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}